Verboticisms

Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Newk-fee-er-bun-gel

Sentence: Tony would often lie awake at night stricken with the thought of nukefearbungle. All sorts of questions ran through his mind, what if someone accidentally pushed THE button resulting in the destruction of our planet. What would happen? Would there be any survivors? How long would they be able to survive? He finally decided to start building a nuclear bunker in his garden and stock it with enough food and supplies to last for at least three years.

Etymology: Nuke(short for nuclear) + Fear)a state of high anxiety) + Bungle(a istake, or be incompetent) = Nukefearbungle) See Nuclear bunker

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great combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:42:00

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: ka-boom-uh-feers

Sentence: Gallon Greensplane, was sure that he could ease the kaboomafears of the others...as he explained how safe the new G.S.O.N.C.B.'s are. (*Global Swarming Organic Nuclear Cold Bombs)

Etymology: Kaboom -is an onomatopoeia representing the sound of an explosion. A Fear- A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: parənoōkiə

Sentence: Boomer is one of the few people we know who still maintains a fallout shelter. His paranukia runs deep. He tells his skeptics ”When they blow you up, don’t come running to me”.

Etymology: paranoia (a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution) + nuke (a nuclear weapon)

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Created by: GlobalGallery

Pronunciation: Kevin-Bacon-Neutron-Star-o-phobia

Sentence: 1. A Neutron Star is an astronomical object in the dying stages of it's existence. 2. A star that is dying could be referred to as a Death Star. 3. The Death Star is a fictional moon-sized space station and superweapon occupied by Darth Vader and his crew. 4. Darth Vader is the cental antagonist in the Star Wars films. 5. 'Star Wars' was the pet name for the SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) proposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. 6. The SDI was designed to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. =Kevinbaconeutronstarophobia

Etymology: Based on the trivia game 'The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' that links many major Hollywood actors to Kevin Bacon through six or less interconnecting film roles.

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COMMENTS:

great blent of what is and what might be, a very savvy insight into fact and sci-fi. Extraordinary! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:39:00

blend not blent, darn my fingers! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:39:00

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: the/big/bang/feer/ee

Sentence: Stu equated thebigbangfeary to all the nations on the planet giving ultimatums and counting to ten. It was inevitable that someone would push the button. Even balloons bursting caused him to break out in a cold sweat.

Etymology: The Big Bang Theory + fear

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COMMENTS:

Clever! - TJayzz, 2009-02-04: 07:30:00

terrific choices in your etymology for captures the feeling that sometimes the end of one thing is the beginning of another, even though we don't know what or if that may be. Your verbotomy will live forever in my memory along with hope. Super in the nth degree! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:47:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: nu kleer and prez ant dayn jer

Sentence: Adam Bomber was the top sales rep for Gone Fission...the Nuclear Product Company whose sales targets were not bang-on! Adam Nuisance is what the Military Buyer, Dr.Oppenheimer, called him, because he was after them every week selling add-ons. "Yes, for this week only we are offering a BOGO on Pogo (a Buy One, Get One nuclear armaments sale, where you could wipe out the island of Pogo. What Adam did not realize was that POGO was an acronym for Project On Government Oversight, an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government.) You could say that his sales pitch bombed, his profits would not mushroom, he was a nuclearandpresentdanger to his peers and his targets imploded. People were not surprised to read in the Society columns that Mr. Adam Bomber would soon be marrying Miss Eva D. Struction were spending their honeymoon in Nagasaki Japan!

Etymology: Nuclear ((weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy) & Clear And Present Danger (Play on a Title of a Tom Clancy Novel, made into a movie)

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COMMENTS:

Awesome! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-05: 13:08:00

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: nu clear harms race

Sentence: At the suggestion that a large number of nuclear weapons exist globally, the group, strangely didn’t admit the need for a nuclearharmsrace that many others did.

Etymology: This word is a combination of "nuclear arms race" and harm. Nuclear weapons are extremely harmful to the human race.

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COMMENTS:

Wonderful sentence! Well-crafted verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 22:46:00

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: feer - oo - sheem - ah

Sentence: Nester constantly watched documentaries and read dozens of books about the cold war, World War II, nuclear capabilities and armaments. Although he had learned a great deal of history and could expound on scientific theories, knowing more about these topics also resulted in a great deal of fearoshima for Nester. He began to fret more and more that the end could be near.

Etymology: Fear + Hiroshima >>>Fear (be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event) Hiroshima (a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb)

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Powerful verbotomy - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:25:00

hehehe - galwaywegian, 2009-02-04: 10:48:00

excellent - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:44:00

I agree...excellent! - kateinkorea, 2009-02-06: 02:21:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: bang zy itee

Sentence: When you took Professor Atom Baum's physics class, it was hard not to develop bangxiety about the world's fate. According to Atom,the world was always on the verge of nuclear war. Of course, Professor Atom Baum was married to Professor Eva Destruction, so there was always cheery chat around their dinner table. Neither of them ever bought green bananas, just in case they were right.

Etymology: Bang (Explosion;loud noise;the swift release of a store of affective force;(cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin and the demise of the universe) & Anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: ca/tas/tro/fear

Sentence: Every news report of trouble in the Gaza Strip sends Jenny into a state of catastrofear.

Etymology: CATASTROFEAR - noun - from CATASTROPHE (a final event, or conclusion; a disastrous end) + FEAR (concern or anxiety)

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COMMENTS:

nice - galwaywegian, 2009-02-04: 10:48:00

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